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Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

0 posted 2015-12-16 03:22 AM

When everyday things like writing a poem
have flown into the heavens above
they sit there amused at humankind
for bemoaning their untimely demise.

Not dead but waiting for the right time
to emerge again into my life
so I can feel their awesome effect
and know loss isn’t permanent.

Yet the time it takes endless it seems
to know again what has been lost
and I like a jilted lover
remain burdened with memories.

Now burdens are such that no one can love
or trip through the daisies of a new life
until the brain and heart transforms
to adapt to the new and untried.

But in the process of transformation
memories surface time, time again,
and it seems to me like a punishment
for having so loved what is no more.

And so how can I trip through the daisies
unburdened and totally free
from that “gone but not forgotten”
that stalks my everyday life?

And the question goes out to the ether
there to sit and be amused
at one who inherently knows
to not in this lifetime forget!

Mr Martini
Member
Posts 366
Beneath The Line

1 posted 2015-12-16 03:32 AM

"no one can love or trip through the daisies of a new life until the brain and heart transforms to adapt to the new and untried".

Simple, yet profound home-spun wisdom so true. I find it unusual to hear such things, "fresh out of the box" in the afternoon.

Au Revoir

Here's to you and here's to me and should we ever disagree, here's to me!

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

2 posted 2015-12-16 03:48 AM

Thanks you, Mr. Martini. I guess life is simple really but we make it so complicated. It's still morning here so my "fresh out of the box" is probably a result of my ... dreams.

Margherita
Member Seraphic

since 2003-02-08

Posts 22236
Eternity

3 posted 2015-12-16 04:05 AM

My dear Helen, once again you make me think with your intense poem through which I perceive your heart sighs. I so love your expression "trip through the daisies"!

That's exactly what you should do, acknowledge the daisies of a new life ... Spring returns regularly, we have the chance of living it always fully. It's not easy to let go, I know. Still, what is no more has certainly a right to be remembered, but it does not have the right to "burden" our present. In the process of letting go, we can express our gratitude for what was, but then we must not cling to it. The clinging is dangerous, it makes our sight blurred for what comes our way in the NOW.

So I wish you to walk unencumbered and enjoy the fragrance of the daisies while you tiptoe through them.

I am fine, thank you, grateful for what is even as age related problems create some new challenges.

Sending you much love and hugs, dear Helen, Poetess.

Margherita

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

4 posted 2015-12-16 04:18 AM

Thank you, dear Margherita, for your wise words.  I need to hear them even if I know them.  I try so hard to not remember and just when I think I've got it right the night plays tricks on me and I'm back into fighting my way out of it again.

I know about those age challenges.  They can be a bit taxing at times but I guess we do the best we can.  I wish you well through them.
Hugs!

JerryPat2
Member Laureate

since 2011-02-06

Posts 16975
South Louisiana

5 posted 2015-12-16 08:10 AM

Ahhh . . . You'll have those gypsies tripping through the daisies soon, my dear friend. So good to see you here for a change . . .

~ If they give you lined paper, write sideways. ~

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

6 posted 2015-12-16 08:31 AM

Thanks, Jerry. Yes, indeed I will but maybe just a slow stroll. However, on the other hand, by the time I get to those daisies it will probably be a wild dash.

secondhanddreampoet
Member Ascendant

since 2006-11-07

Posts 6394
a 'Universalist' !

7 posted 2015-12-16 01:40 PM

well written indeed !

especially:

"But in the process of transformation
  memories surface time, time again,
  and it seems to me like a punishment
  for having so loved what is no more."

As Christopher Morley put it ... "We can
never go 'home' again ..."

Honeybunch
Member Rara Avis

since 2001-12-29

Posts 7115
South Africa

8 posted 2015-12-16 02:47 PM

Thanks, Bruce. There are many of us who long to go "home" but that home, I do believe, isn't of or in this world.

Ticklefingers
Senior Member
Posts 710
Louisiana

9 posted 2015-12-16 03:00 PM

quote:
"how can I trip through the daisies
unburdened and totally free"...

Try 'tip-toeing' through the tulips instead. Who can say, it might work!

Lovely and interesting. Like a good book, once started you can't stop until you read the last word.

88's friend

She told me "play one for your supper Danny and maybe you'll get breakfast".

JL
Member Ascendant

since 2004-04-01

Posts 6128
Texas, USA

10 posted 2015-12-16 07:51 PM

"until the brain and heart transforms
to adapt to the new and untried."

Great write, Honeybunch.

JL

Love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul,and with all your mind. Love your neighbor as yourself.
Maranatha!

JamesMichael
Member Empyrean

since 1999-11-16

Posts 33336
Kapolei, Hawaii, USA

11 posted 2015-12-16 11:52 PM

nice writing...james

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